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This is actually a [TOMT] from a year ago, the OP posted here and no one solved it. It really caught my interest back then and I suddenly remembered it today, so I figured it was worth a second shot.
From the OP:
A short story set in a decadent future where everyone lives forever and mostly they go to parties. Guy meets a girl at a party, suggest he start at one side of an asteroid and digs a tunnel by hand to her, while she waits in a hollowed out space and creates a beautiful garden while waiting (robots take care of all mundane life support stuff).
So he digs 100 years, get there, they're all set to have mad sex, but he calls her by the wrong name or something and she turns cold. The last line is something like "You've done this kind of thing before with someone else."
He apparently read the story in the 80's or 90's, and comments to correct with the actual ending:
I remember I got the ending wrong. He makes it through to her chamber, they have a long romance, and when they've had enough the go back to civilization. The robots bury everything and return the asteroid to the way it was. Then they run into each other at a party and she overhears him proposing it to a different girl. That's when she says, "You've done this before."
Hopefully someone can find it this time around, I'd really like to read this story.
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